Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them. ~Brendan Francis
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. -Marcus Aurelius
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. -Mark Twain
If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?
Confucius
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Nelson Mandela
The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
W. Clement Stone
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
Bill Cosby
No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.
Samuel Goldwyn
There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.
George S. Patton
Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.
Rosa Parks
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Marcus Aurelius
The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.
John C. Maxwell
The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
Marianne Williamson
Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
Earl Nightingale
The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.
Richard Bach
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
James A. Baldwin
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Marie Curie
For the longest time I have felt governed by fear, crippled by it, twisted and crushed under the weight of it. Fear is not my enemy. Fear will always be around. The enemy of everything I wish to accomplish is the coward in me who bows away from fear, skulks in the corner when fear is around, and waits for the elusive perfect circumstances to move forward. It is the anxiety and doubt and guilt that move me away from my future and further into myself. It stifles action. The more I listen, the more I seem to become someone worthy of pity, someone who would rather be comfortable rather than happy. And so I have lived like half a person, irritated by the light others give off and apologetic to the world for refusing to seek out beauty.
